I think this is the issue right here--the fact that Entourage didn't recognize that they couldn't--and shouldn't--go head to head with the ipad or other straight-up tablets. Some of us really don't care about playing games, or streaming netflix, or shooting video with our reading/productivity devices. The fact is, you have a certain set of expectations as a consumer, and I have a completely different set. The ipad never appealed to me, is not a product I considered buying, and does not form the baseline for what I believe a tablet-like device should do. Nor did the Kindle define ink reading for me. What got me into both the world of tablets *and* eink was the dualbook. For what it's worth, I completely disagree about the utility and preferability of eink to LCD. I will NEVER read on an LCD screen. Perhaps I am in the minority on this, and others are more than happy to do so, but I think that even as a minority there are enough people like me who feel similarly attached to eink. And there are enough academics, professionals, doctors, whatever, out there that we are a viable consumer market. Perhaps not on the scale of Apple consumers, but enough to keep a company going.

I am actually quite tired of people telling me over and over again that the PE was somehow lacking. I bought mine in December 2010 for $340 and I *still* feel it was money well-spent. So much so that I bought a used EE 2 months later (for less than $400--I agree that the retail price of the EE was prohibitive).

In my opinion, the Edge suffered from poor branding and bad marketing, and not from any inherent mechanical or design flaws.